23 Bible Verses about Beware Of Your Speech

So also the tongue is a small member, and vaunts itself. Behold, how great a wood a little fire inflames

(And the tongue a fire, a world of iniquity: so the tongue is placed in our members, defiling the whole body, and burning the wheel of creation; and burned by hell.

And the tongue none of men can tame; an ungovernable evil, full of deadly poison.

Death and life in the hand of the tongue: and they loving it shall eat its fruit

And they sent to him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, that they might catch him in the word.

Then the Pharisees, having gone, took counsel how they might ensnare him in word.

Laying wait for him, and seeking to seize something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him.

And they were not able to seize upon his word before the people: and having wondered at his answer, they were silent.

He guarding his mouth, watched his soul: he opening wide his lips, destruction to him.

Set, O Jehovah, a watch to my mouth; guard over the door of my lips.

For not a word in my tongue, behold, O Jehovah, thou knewest all of it

And when they deliver you up, have no care how or what ye should speak: for it shall be given you in that hour what ye shall speak.

O generation of vipers! how can ye speak good things, being evil? for out of the abundance of the heart the month speaks.

But the things going forth out of the mouth come from the heart, and these pollute the man.

And it was in their having withdrawn from him, Peter said to Jesus, Ruler, it is good for us to be here: and let us make three tents, one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias: not knowing what he says.

Therefore whatever ye have said in darkness shall be heard in light; and what ye spake to the ear in storehouses shall be proclaimed upon house tops.

And having observed narrowly, they sent liers-in-wait, feigning themselves to be just, that they might seize upon his word, to deliver him to the beginning and authority of the leader.

For in many things we all stumble. If any stumble not in word, this a perfect man, able to govern by a bridle also the whole body.

The mouth of the foolish is destruction to him, and his lips the snare of his soul.

Thou wert snared with the sayings of thy mouth, thou wert taken with the sayings of thy mouth.

And I say to you, That every idle word which men speak, they shill return word for it in the day of judgment.

For by thy words shalt thou be justified, and by thy words shalt thou be condemned.

And he said to him, Out of thy month will I judge thee, O evil servant. Thou knewest that I am an austere man, taking up what I laid not down, and reaping what I sowed not: